This document provides an update on safety topics from John Newquist. It includes: 1) Objectives to explain what safety professionals do, how OSHA works, big issues, emerging workplace floor issues, and where members are located. 2) Data on costs of typical injuries, showing indirect costs are higher than direct medical costs. It also shows audit and training data to improve safety performance over time. 3) Regional OSHA data on citations and fatalities, noting falls and struck by incidents are leading causes of death. It provides an overview of OSHA inspections, investigations, and recent enforcement actions.

1. ASSE Update
John Newquist
johnanewquist@gmail.com
815-354-6853

2. Objectives
• Explain what top safety people do,
• How OSHA works,
• Big issues
• Emerging issues from the workplace floor
• Where our members are?

3. Top Safety Results

4. Sales Impact of Selected Injuries
Injury/
Illness
Average
Direct Cost
Indirect
Cost
Total Cost Sales
Needed
(5% profit)
Sprain $4,245 $6,792 $11,037 $220,740
Laceration $1,101 $4,955 $6,056 $121,120
Foreign
Body
$317 $1,427 $1,744 $34,880
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5. Monthly Audits

6. Monthly Audits
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20
40
60
80
100
120
1/7/05
2/18/05
4/1/05
5/13/05
6/24/05
8/5/05
9/16/05
10/28/05
12/9/05
1/20/06
3/3/06
4/14/06
Week Beginning
Number of Safety
Inspections
90%
95%
100%
1/7/05
2/18/05
4/1/05
5/13/05
6/24/05
8/5/05
9/16/05
10/28/05
12/9/05
1/20/06
3/3/06
4/14/06
Week Beginning
Safety Inspection
Scores
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7. Hazards?

8. Hazards?

9. Hazards?

10. Hazards?

11. Monthly Training for Managers

12. Daily Job Briefings

15. Data
• If you make it easier to use
safety, more likely it will be used
and get done.
• Cones, grease gun, lockout,
brooms.
• Kevin O’Leary

16. Data
• 35% of all fatalities occurred in
workers age 55 or older, with
1,691 deaths.
• This is the highest number of
fatalities ever recorded for this
group of workers.

17. Older workers
• The preliminary number of
workers ages 55 and older who
died on the job was "the highest
total ever reported" by the
bureau's census.
• The number jumped from 1,490
in 2013 to 1,621 in 2014, a 9
percent rise.

18. Region V Fatalities
• OSHA in Region 5 had 140
investigated fatalities in 2015 up
+28.
• 48 Illinois.
• 29 in Wisconsin up 50%
• 48 in Ohio
• 227 Struck by
• 185 Falls
• 166 Caught in
• 41 Electrocutions
• 32 Exposure
• 30 Other
• 20 Fire/Explosion

19. Region V Fall Fatalities 2010-2014
• 25 Ladders
• 19 Roofs
• 18 Same Surface
• 16 Other
• 14 Aerial Lift
• 9 Nonmoving Vehicle

20. Region V Most Cited Areas
• Machine Guarding
1910.212(a)(1)
• GHS 1910.1200(e)
• GHS 1910.1200(h)
• 5(a)(1)
• Machine Guarding
1910.212(a)(3)

21. OSHA In Region 5 - 2016
• 6200 inspection in 2015
• 68 Sigcases +14 egregious cases
• 47% construction
• 44% programmed

22. Leadership in Region V
• Ken Atha
• 20 Years Experience
• Regional
Administrator
• Area Director

23. OSHA Leadership – Last Year
• May 2015
• “We think we're only
getting a very small
portion of the accidents
that should be reported,”
said Dr. David Michaels,
the U.S. Assistant
Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and
Health who is in charge
of OSHA.
“When we investigate, we see that most employers don’t treat temporary
workers the way they treat their permanent employees — they don’t
provide them with the training that is necessary.”

24. OSHA

25. OSHA

26. OSHA
• First Three Years of CSHO Training
• #1000 Initial Compliance.
• #1050 Introduction to Safety Standards for Safety
Officers (safety career path/safety specialists).
• #1250 Introduction to Health Standards for
Industrial Hygienists (health career path/industrial
hygienists).
• #2000 Construction Standards (construction career
path/ construction specialists).
• #1310 Investigative Interviewing Techniques
• #1410 Inspection Techniques and Legal Aspects.
• #2450 Evaluation of Safety and Health
Management Systems.
• #1230 Accident Investigation.
• #8200 Incident Command System I-200 course,

27. OSHA

28. Criminal 2015
• Prosecutors said on Wednesday that the two
managers — Wilmer Cueva, of Sky Materials,
and Alfonso Prestia, of Harco Construction —
had ignored repeated warnings for months
from private inspectors that treacherous
conditions existed at the site on Ninth Avenue
• Manslaughter and other charges were being
brought against two construction managers
and the companies they worked for in the
April death of a worker at a Lower Manhattan
building site.

29. Neri Update February 2015
Mike Neri agreed to be permanently
enjoined from engaging in trenching,
excavation, construction or related
activities and permanently
prohibited from possessing or
leasing any construction excavation
equipment.
• The judges also found that Neri,
based on a review of his tax
returns and other financial
records, was unable to pay the
$110,440 fine.
• Mike Neri was released from
Federal Prison December 24, 2014

30. OSHA Litigation 2015
• OSHA cited Pan Oceanic Engineering of Chicago
$105,600
• $70,000 Willful cave in Protection 651(a)(1) Affirmed
• $15,400 Repeat Sidewalk under-mined 651(i)(3) Vacated
• $7,000 Competent Person 651(k) Vacated
• $13,200 Repeat traffic signs 1926.200(g) Vacated
• Trial held in Spring 2015.
Open Date: 07/22/2013

31. May 2016
• HARTFORD CITY, Ind. (WISH)
— A teenager died after an
accident involving a tree
stump grinder Saturday in
Blackford County.
• Blackford County Coroner
Tod Waters said 18-year-old
Cody Bronnenberg of
Yorktown was working with
his uncle at a home on
County Road 200 North east
of State Road 3.

32. May 2016• Pillsbury Mills plant in Springfield
IL
• Joseph Chernis IV, a federal
indictment for improper asbestos
removal and for making false
statements
• The penalty on each count is up to
five years in prison followed by
three years of supervised release
and a fine of up to $250,000.
• Chernis, of Sherman, is accused of
hiring an untrained individual to
illegally remove more than 1,000
feet of asbestos pipe insulation
from four buildings between
October 2014 and August 2015.
• "The asbestos debris was stuffed
into approximately 300 garbage
bags and at least two open-topped
cardboard boxes, and left inside
vacant buildings at the facility,"
according to the indictment
announcement.

33. April 2016
• Don Blankenship, the longtime chief executive
officer of Massey Energy, was convicted on
charges that he violated federal mine safety
laws at the company’s Upper Big Branch Mine
prior to an April 2010 explosion that killed 29
miners.
• One year in prison + $250,000
• This is the maximum sentence allowed under
the law.

34. Jan 2016
• Cincinnati OH
• Grand jury indicts two managers
• Zachary Henzerling was working at
Environmental Enterprises on Dec.
28, 2012, when a fire broke out as
he was treating hazardous waste.
• The Colerain Township man was
burned, and later died from his
injuries.
• Another worker also was badly
burned in the incident.

35. Oct 2015
• OSHA moves to a new enforcement
weighting system that assigns
greater value to complex
inspections that require more time
and resources.
• Routine inspections count as one
unit, while those requiring greater
resources — such as those
involving musculoskeletal
disorders, chemical exposures,
workplace violence, and process
safety management violations —
count as up to nine units.

36. Oct 2015
• Since the beginning of the year,
more than 20 workers with
allegedly bogus OSHA cards have
been busted at NY city
construction sites, sources
familiar with the crackdown said.

37. Oct 2015
• A jury convicted Griffin Campbell
of six counts of involuntary
manslaughter, rejecting the
third-degree murder charges
sought by prosecutors who said
Campbell ignored warnings of an
imminent collapse.

38. 2015 Problems
• Trench 5-6 feet deep.
• Spoil at edge.
• No access.

39. 2015 Problems
• Holes not secured and covered
with steel plate and fenced off.

40. 2015 Problems
• Rigging is used when damaged

41. 2015 Problems
• Not keeping the 10 feet safe
clearance from powerlines
• 240 volts temp lights may not be
ok to encroach on the 10 foot.
• Weatherproofing is not
insulation.

42. 2015 Problems
• Workers have ZERO documented
training in the MUCTD so set up
cones and flags haphazardly

43. May 2016

44. Apr 2016

45. Nov 2015

46. April 2015
• Lifting a piece of pine
about 5 foot long 18
inches across
• “the load made it to the
ground ok the hook of
the biner caught the
strap and held till we
lowered it down.”
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1910.184(d)
Inspections. Each day before being used, the sling and all fastenings and
attachments shall be inspected for damage or defects by a competent person
designated by the employer.

47. May 2014
• Providence RI
• 8 hurt in fall
• The US Occupational Safety and
Health Administration said the
rigging used put excessive weight
on a carabiner, causing the metal
loop to fail, and the acrobats, who
were hanging by their hair, to fall
15 to 20 feet
• According to OSHA, circus staff
violated both industry practice and
the manufacturer’s instructions for
using the carabiner by attaching it
so it was pulled in three directions,
rather than two.

48. Feb 2016
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A 26-year-old tower climber is expected to be in intensive care for another
ten days after he fell from a guyed tower in Rosenberg, Tex. when his
personal fall protection equipment failed after he slipped from a brace on
a climbing face as he was descending after a day’s work on an LTE project
for AT&T.

49. Key Changes in Z359.1
• Section 3.2.1.4
• Gate face strength requirements
have changed from 220 lbs.
(1kN) (old Standard) to 3,600
lbs. (16kN) (new Standard).
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50. June 2013
• Officials canceled
work on the St.
Charles County
bridge after a 55-
gallon drum being
lifted by a crane fell
on 51-year-old
Jerseyville IL man.
• He was pronounced
dead at the scene.

51. Drums 2015

52. Ladders as a Last Resort
• JLG lift pod

53. July 2015
• Issues?
• “Perfect balance for cowboy boots”
• Photo Justin Morrison
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54. February 2015
• Genie
• Allows a user to exit the platform and work
comfortably around the outside of the
platform with a 6-ft lanyard. It attaches to a 6-
or 8-ft platform on all Genie telescopic and
articulating boom lifts with lift heights higher
than 40 ft., with the exception of the S-125HD
model.

55. JLG
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56. July 2015
• San Luis Obispo, CA
• The machine's blades "came around and
broke his arm and came around again and
broke his arm a little further up the next
turnaround," said San Luis Obispo Fire
Battalion Chief Neal Berryman
• Berryman said the man's head or neck would
have been hit next.
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57. July 2015
• MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio – Shady
Knob violated the law when they
allowed a 14-year-old boy to
operate machinery, which
resulted in him losing his hand.
• “Workers under age 18 are
prohibited from operating
power-driven woodworking
machinery, such as the wood
planer used here,” said Howard
Eberts, OSHA’s area director in
Cleveland.
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Unsafe!
Safe

58. March 2015
• Island Lake IL
• The machinist was
using sandpaper to
remove surface rust
from a part of a
computer-run
machine.
• His hand was caught
and pulled into
rotating parts,
breaking his bones.
• The worker underwent
several surgeries and
rehabilitation
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59. ANSI B Series
The user shall designate, provide, and ensure
the use of at least one of the following methods
of safeguarding that affords protection for the
operator, consistent with the requirements of
the task:
• guard(s)
• safeguarding device(s)
• awareness barrier(s) or awareness device(s)
• safe work procedure(s).
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60. Machine Guarding

61. Challenges
• Machine guarding best
practices
• Case studies for the
business case for safety
• Construction ergonomics

62. Certification

63. The $12.70 is for one trade. Hazardous trades will pay more.

64. Work Comp
• NOC Code
• 3632 --------------- Machine Shop -------------- $6.00 per $100 of payroll
• 3400 --------------- Metal Stamping ------------ $6.98 per $100 of payroll
• 2881 --------------- Furniture/Cabinet Mfg. --- $4.35 per $100 of payroll
• 3372 --------------- Electro Plating -------------- $5.85 per $100 of payroll

65. Impact of Six Losses

66. Questions?
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